2019

Winners

Highly Commended

Tony Fini Foundation Artists Prize

Baldock Family People's Choice Prize

ARTIST PODCASTS

Stories behind selected portraits featured in this year’s exhibition

LARGE PRINT ARTIST STATEMENTS

Large print version of our 2019 Exhibition artist statements for individuals who are visually impaired

Finalists

Artist: Jordan Andreotta | Title: Sr Flora | Subject: Sr Flora Ricupero

Artist: Lisa Axiotis | Title: Balladeer | Subject: Daryl Braithwaite

Artist: Antoinette Barbouttis | Title: Liam | Subject: Liam Nunan

Artist: Elizabeth Barden | Title: Mermaids make waves | Subject: Amy Sheppard

Artist: Natasha Ber | Title: Thirty-two | Subject: Self-portrait

Artist: Julie-Ann Brown | Title: The burden of expectation | Subject: Callum Brown

Artist: Jeff Bryant | Title: Lazarus | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Elle Campbell | Title: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Doreen Chapman | Title: Untitled | Subject: Nicole Leuchter

Artist: Joshua Cocking | Title: The sum of all things | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Daveena Cox | Title: John Lombardo eighty years rich | Subject: John Lombardo

Artist: Patrick Cremin | Title: Self‐portrait with fragmented frame | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Martie Curtis | Subject: Derek Rutherford

Artist: Phillip Edwards | Title: Me, I and mystics morning | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Stacey Evangelou | Title: The coastal cowboy | Subject: Ben Debono

Artist: Sharman Feinberg | Title: Woman with red wattle bird | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Sebastian Galloway | Title: Bastet | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Jenni Gray | Title: The winter beanie | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Benjamin Howe | Title: Anita | Subject: Anita Lester

Artist: Sean Hutton | Title: Wallace | Subject: Wallace Lee

Artist: Stephanie Jowett | Title: Portrait of Jojo | Subject: Josephine Garcia Jowett

Artist: Nicole Kelly | Title: Departure (home) | Subject: Self‐portrait with Lauren Forlonge

Artist: Torsten Knorr | Title: Jamie | Subject: Jamie Arkeveld

Artist: Stacey Korfiatis | Title: Jennifer | Subject: Jennifer Pitch

Artist: Rosemary Lee | Title: Kryska Blue | Subject: Kryska Hyde

Artist: Camilla Loveridge | Title: Surrender, be still | Subject: Thomas Gerard Darwin

Artist: Harry McAlpine | Title: Dirty rat | Subject: Robbie Lynn

Artist: Andrew Nicholls | Title: Icarus—portrait of Thomas Worrell | Subject: Thomas Worrell

Artist: Emi Ninoseki | Title: Glenn | Subject: Glenn Darlington

Artist: Liam Nunan | Title: Jonny Hawkins | Subject: Jonny Hawkins

Artist: Nicole OLoughlin | Title: The artist Mother is present | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Lori Pensini | Title: Banksia grandis—love begets love | Subject: Mitchell Pensini

Artist: Rebecca Pierce | Title: Lang ink becomes you | Subject: Lang Pierce Harvey

Artist: Kendell Pike | Title: Untitled | Subject: Bruce Pike

Artist: Lynn Savery | Title: Self‐portrait | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Oliver Shepherd | Title: The proposal—portrait of the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG | Subject: Michael Donald Kirby

Artist: Liz Stute | Title: The commute (Self‐portrait) | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Wade Taylor | Title: Carla | Subject: Carla Adams

Artist: Justine Wake | Title: I had not thought of that | Subject: Self‐portrait

Artist: Narelle Zeller | Title: Bury me with a mandarin | Subject: Hope Jenkins

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